Analysis: Here’s why you should consider wide-swath cutting and why it is better for your cows’ milk production.

Decreasing availability of irrigation water has led dairies and feedyards to increasingly look to sorghum to meet their ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

With less feed in bunkers, bags and silos, it becomes easier to evaluate storage structures and address maintenance needs ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...

Sorghum is one plant sometimes used for silage. Scientists at Kansas State University say this fermented livestock feed produces nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but that they have uncovered a ...

In intensive cattle production systems, silage is the insurance farmers need for their feeding needs. According to livestock experts, away from grazing, feed storage for deferred use both as hay and ...

Just as we turned a corner with weather in early March, we were faced with another challenge — the Iranian crisis led to ...

James Mugerwa, a mixed farmer in Mukono explains that protecting animal feed quality is an important aspect of grain feed stocks. Mugerwa says that to minimise spoilage, smallholder farmers can bag ...

Farmers might question whether to allow crops to bulk up to increase yield per acre, or to cut earlier and prioritise quality ...

NEWARK, Del, July 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The corn silage market share is anticipated to surpass USD 348.5 million in 2024 and USD 688.4 million by 2034. The corn silage market size is projected ...

It comes as the majority of Irish dairy farmers have been forced to return their cattle to sheds in recent weeks due to the ...